| Tutorial Title: How to create a sunburst with gradients |
| Program: PSP 5+ |
Step 1: Open a new image with the dimensions 100x100 pixels. You can use any size you want, but for this tutorial you should start small first. Make your background color any color and the foreground any color you may want. I used a white background with a blue foreground.
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Step 2: Create a new layer and leave the name "layer 1" the same. Click on the fill tool (the icon that looks like a paint bucket). Now in the Control palette, change the fill style to sunburst gradient and click the options button. In the options menu, change the horizontal and vertical numeration so that they are both 100. If you are using PSP 7+ you'll have to use the new color palette to apply the gradient settings.
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Step 3: Now here comes the tricky part. You are going to start right clicking about every other ray band in your sunburst. For example, you right click one band, then skip, and right click another one, and so on, and so on. Your image should look something like the one below:
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Step 4: Your image should look a little jagged around the edges. That's okay! But, if you would like to fix that... You can add a Gaussian blur to the entire image. Set the blur to .75 (notice the period before the 75). Below is the finished image.
Hint! If you would like to use this as a background for something, it may become hard to read or view what is on top of the background. To fix this problem, do not pick two colors that are so far apart on the spectrum, try to pick ones the are a bit closer. For example, use black and dark gray, red and red-orange, blue and violet, and so forth. |
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